在比较文学中,主题研究和缺类研究同属于平行比较范畴。一般来说,前者比较同一主题在不同国家的不同表现,后者是对某一文体在某国文学中的缺类的研究。本文尝试把缺类研究运用到主题研究中来,旨在开辟缺类研究的新领域和主题研究的新视觉。在中西比较文学中,就主题而言,除了“存在着产生我们共同人类之中,贯穿整个世界的基本统一”外,还存在着差异性。因此,寻求差异性与发现同一性具有同等重要的意义。正如米切尔在《东西方文艺理论》中所强调的那样:“这是我们最潜在 In comparative literature, subject research and lack of research belong to the category of parallel comparison. In general, the former compares different manifestations of the same subject in different countries, while the latter studies the absence of a particular style in a country’s literature. This paper attempts to apply the lack of research into the theme of research, aimed at opening up a new field of lack of research and a new vision of thematic research. In the comparative literature between China and the West, there is a difference in theme from the point of view of “the existence of the fundamental unification that produces our common humanity and the entire world.” Therefore, finding differences is equally important to discovering identity. As Mitchell emphasized in The East-West Literary Theories: "This is our most potential